Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Williams, who was voted 1948-8 "Fighter of the Year" by New York boxing writers, answered all questions in the first minute of the first round. He launched a whistling left that staggered Bolanos and drew blood from his mouth. In the second round, a jolting overhand right almost closed the challenger's left eye. Thereafter, Bolanos stumbled around the ring, as helpless against Williams as a matador fighting a bull with a knife & fork...
...Saltzstein and Pollack got only the more serious cases, so that they performed as many operations for cancer as for "benign" (nonmalignant) tumors. Nowadays, women with less serious ailments rush in for consultation, and the doctors are performing twice as many operations for benign tumors as for cancer. And almost half the women who rush in, the doctors find, need no surgery...
...place. But when Greek civilization degenerated into barbarism, the two marble slabs were used as secondhand building stones to line a rough, crude tomb in the suburbs of Athens. This insult to the carving saved it. When Greek archeologists dug them up, the two slabs could be fitted together almost as good as new. Even some of the brown paint on the slave's face and arms is still in place...
...such profound cold the molecules will be almost deathly still. Zero itself'will not have been reached. Ityis a will-o'-the-wisp game that physicists play: zero can be pursued and approached, but never actually captured...
...solar system swarms with asteroids (probably fragments of a shattered planet), but the new-found asteroid is extraordinary. Instead of being almost circular, its orbit is a long ellipse. Revolving around the sun in about 360 days, it passes inside the orbit of Mercury and comes within 22 million miles of the sun. Then it recedes to 156 million miles, beyond the orbit of Mars. No other known asteroid visits both places...